‼️🚨 Friday 10th April
@djhatcha returns to
@261portobello for a vinyl-only Big Apple Records session with
@kennedy_johnpaul and friends 🍌 For the first time in over a decade, Hatcha will be spinning wax from his mythical 10-inch duplate boxes! 💽
📍261 Portobello Road, W11 1LR
🗓️ Friday 10th April 2026, 4-7pm
Hosted by:
@othersidelondon
A foundational name in UK bass music, DJ Hatcha came up through Croydon’s Big Apple Records, where the darker edge of garage was being stripped back and rebuilt into what would become dubstep 🔊 From
@fwdfwdxyz to pirate radio and later
@playkissuk he was one of the key selectors championing the earliest dubs - and a direct link to the first wave that followed 🌊
Big Apple Records boss John Kennedy will also be playing a vinyl-only set, digging through his personal 12-inch favourites 💚 This one’s due to be a proper nod to the originators; expect a heavyweight selection from the Croydon lineage that helped spark the sound 💥
More than just a name, Big Apple Records was the legendary Croydon record shop-turned label that helped incubate early dubstep, a real-world meeting point where the scene swapped plates, shaped the sound, and pushed it forward ⏩️ The label’s first release was
@artwork_is_up_to_something “Red” (2002), followed by early releases from
@iambenga and
@skreamizm - and it’s widely credited as a key engine room for the genre’s birth 🔑
If you know the sound, you know what this means: proper plates, deep bass, and history in the mix - the real “if you were there, you know” moments! 🔥
